Overview
- The health minister outlined a plan to lift medical staff pay to a 75% increase by November 1, targeting 150 billion tugriks in savings through more funding for clinics, pooled medicine procurement, and a tighter subsidy list.
- Officials said pooled purchases could cut roughly 10–20% from about 300 billion tugriks in annual drug costs, and moving routine cases out of referral hospitals could save around 40 billion tugriks.
- Government leaders confirmed preparations to host the UN desertification summit COP17 in Mongolia on August 17–28, with formal invitations to foreign delegates going out this month.
- Ulaanbaatar will start a full overhaul of Sarny Zam from Naran Tuul Market to the 10th microdistrict this year, alongside a 2024–2026 sidewalk program budgeted at 78.3 billion tugriks.
- Parliament member S. Tsenguun challenged the estimated 2.3 trillion tugrik Tuv River highway, noting a bid to form a review group failed in committee and calling for the project to be paused or re‑examined.